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keep down the fever with antipyretics. The experiments 
were numerous, and often as daring and reckless as they 
were novel. This is one of the weaknesses of allopaths, ever 
running after new gods, and sacrificing for new idols. 
Now all these fads have had their day, yet one must see 
that they still have their mighty sway, for the dogmas of 
medicine are ever terrible contrivances in the old school, 
much after the fashion of the orthodox priests of the recent 
past, even to the inquisition. 
The best diet for the consumptive is one nearly composed 
of vegetable material of a rich nutritive quality. There isa 
great deal in good cow’s milk, skimmed and unskimmed. A 
very good aid in the matter of feeding for strength to supply 
something to burn in the system, is the combination of yolk 
of egg, two parts; pure glycerine, one part (by weight) 
An ounce of this combination may be taken in milk. 
Recently I had an excellent opportunity of seeing the 
marvels proper feeding can do in consumption. ‘The case 
was a lady thirty-six years old. Tubercles, breaking down, 
expectorations of pus, fever every evening, slight night 
sweats, complete loss of appetite, emaciating rapidly. I 
ordered milk, boiled under pressure, that is, a quart boitle 
is filled with milk, space being left equal to two fluid ounces. 
The cork was put in tight, and secured by a string tied over 
it. The bottle was then put into water, and kept boiling for 
four hours. Beginning with this, she took the quart during 
the day, and with it the yolk of about two eggs. The doctor 
who had previously treated her gave her antipyrin to keep 
down the fever. It was too hot to be controlled this way. 
The antipyrin was used in six-grain doses, so that the 
temperature was lowered; but still the fever came on, and 
she was steadily going down-hill. But little food was taken, 
and hardly half that digested and assimilated. I found that 
she digested and assimilated the milk, egg yolk, and glycerine, 
the fever abated, then ceased; night sweats stopped; her 
condition was greatly improved in four weeks. I then found 
